Congratulations!

You've made a great decision for your workforce 
you're implementing a behavior-based safety process.
Maybe you've even adopted Values-Based Safety® by
Quality Safety Edge, or "rolled your own" by combining the best things you've heard at the
Behavioral Safety Now
conference. There is good reason to expect success! Done correctly, the approach of actively-involved employees looking out
for other employees' safety is a winner.

Both management and labor benefit from behavior based safety!
It's truly a "Win" for both parties.
Management lowers its liability cost along with its OSHA incidence rate.
The workforce gets a positive safety process based on reinforcement and non-judgmental (anonymous) feedback.
It's all about employees looking after other employees by watching them do their job and then talking to them
about the good things they saw but also the things that exposed the worker to risk.

Behavior-based safety represents an investment of time and money in hopes of lowering incident rates.
It’s possible to expend all those resources, and have nothing to show for it! One of the first things
you should do or already have done is put together a blue-ribbon Safety Steering Committee
representing all areas of the plant. Their time and effort is valuable 
you don’t want to waste their precious time! That's the voluntary and caring
involvement you want to foster through your safety culture.
But we can show you how to leverage your investment in a good data-driven
behavioral process:

collect the data

analyze the data and present it graphically in charts, and then

use it to continuously improve the process and drive down injury rates.

But you and your Committee can drown in data if you’re not careful.
You need a good database, and an easy way to input and retrieve meaningful behavioral charts
and reports that are the keys to the success of the process.
Data makes all the difference between a successful, employee-driven safety
initiative and just another expensive safety program that doesn’t produce a safer work
environment. But your Safety Steering Committee needs to be able to use all that data to accomplish its objectives.

We offer charts and reports grouped into two categories: process improvement tools
and safety improvement tools. If you're familiar with Quality Safety Edge's methodology,
that's just one example of how
we're aligned with the Values-Based Safety® approach.

Imagine a display of the behaviors of most concern (according to the observation data) rank ordered
by number of concerns (that's a pareto diagram). Then if you clicked on one of those behaviors, you'd see
how it is distributed across locations and find out if there are trouble spots. And if you clicked on
one of those locations, you could see all the comments that were made about that behavior at that location,
and get insight that will help you focus on root causes. That's our drilldown pareto chart, described
by Dr. Terry McSween at the Behavioral Safety Now conference, and implemented in our SOPA® software.

Or percent participation (broken down by any of a dozen demographic factors so that you isolate trouble areas
before an OSHA incident or close call), or number of observations, or the behavioral trend on the
behaviors you've pinpointed. Or track action taken to correct a problem or barrier to safety. All that and more is
there in the SOPA software!